A manual of essays, selected from various authors, כרך 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1809 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 6-10 מתוך 58
עמוד 47
... person , as deliberately to assert , that it and its concerns , are proper topics to entertain com- pany . Yet there are many , who through ' want of attention fall into this vein ; as soon as the con- versation begins to acquire life ...
... person , as deliberately to assert , that it and its concerns , are proper topics to entertain com- pany . Yet there are many , who through ' want of attention fall into this vein ; as soon as the con- versation begins to acquire life ...
עמוד 50
... person at whose house the major resided when at Naples . Possibly he might imagine the know- ledge they had in those things might give them a greater relish for his animadversions , or to speak more candidly , the desire of displaying ...
... person at whose house the major resided when at Naples . Possibly he might imagine the know- ledge they had in those things might give them a greater relish for his animadversions , or to speak more candidly , the desire of displaying ...
עמוד 52
... persons understand medals better than I do . To put the musty stories of these queer old men out of our heads , I will give you the history of a valuable medallion , which was sent me about three weeks ago from Venice . Without staying ...
... persons understand medals better than I do . To put the musty stories of these queer old men out of our heads , I will give you the history of a valuable medallion , which was sent me about three weeks ago from Venice . Without staying ...
עמוד 61
... the Æneid is but the second part of the Iliad ; a continuation of the same story , and the persons already formed . The manners of Æneas are those of Homer , superadded to those which Homer gave him . The adventures of Ulysses in G 2 61.
... the Æneid is but the second part of the Iliad ; a continuation of the same story , and the persons already formed . The manners of Æneas are those of Homer , superadded to those which Homer gave him . The adventures of Ulysses in G 2 61.
עמוד 65
... rather be of the latter character , were he entirely master of his own disposition . Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal ; and when a person that has this sensibility of temper , meets with any misfortunes 65.
... rather be of the latter character , were he entirely master of his own disposition . Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal ; and when a person that has this sensibility of temper , meets with any misfortunes 65.
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
action admired Æneid agreeable Alcander Apollo Belvedere appear Aristotle beauty body Cenodoxus character charms chuse Cicero colour comedy conversation delicacy of passion delight Democritus disposition Dryden endeavour equal ESSAY esteemed Euphemion evils Exegi expressed eyes face fair favour folly fortune genius give grace Guido Reni happiness heart Hercules heroes history of Milan Homer honour human humour idea Iliad imagine imitation kind labours ladies latter Leon Battista Alberti less live Lysippus mankind manner mean merit mind nature ness never noble numbers object observed Ovid paint painter perfect perhaps person Phidias philosophers pleasing pleasure poet polite pope Urban VIII possession present racters raillery readers reason reflection scarce scarcity of lovely sense sensibility Septimius shew sight soul speak species sublime temper thing thought tion true twelve labours vanity Virgil virtue wisdom word write
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 224 - Our present race of ephemerae will in a course of minutes become corrupt, like those of other and older bushes, and consequently as wretched : and in philosophy how small our progress ! Alas ! art is long, and life is short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me ; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and to glory. But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists ? and what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour,...
עמוד 131 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men...
עמוד 103 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
עמוד 104 - I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
עמוד 104 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof : an image was before mine eyes ; there was silence, and I heard a voice...
עמוד 55 - Words, indeed, like glaring colours, are the first beauties that arise and strike the sight; but, if the draught...
עמוד 189 - I might have bought with the rest of the money; and laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with vexation; and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure.
עמוד 190 - When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect, He pays, indeed, said I, too much for his whistle.
עמוד 71 - Sickness is a sort of early old age ; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state, and inspires us with the thoughts of a future, better than a thousand volumes of philosophers and divines. It gives so warning a concussion to those props of our vanity, our strength and youth, that we think of fortifying ourselves within, when there is so little dependence upon our outworks.
עמוד 223 - the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion; since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary that gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently...